Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Frick returns to work via streetcar”
byFrick, the chairman of Carnegie Steel, had been sitting at his desk in the Hussey Building on Pittsburgh’s Fifth Avenue when he was attacked…
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Attack on Frick hurts Homestead strike”
byThe shooter, an anarchist named Alexander Berkman, also stabbed the chairman of the Carnegie steel company with a homemade dagger. Frick survived but Berkman’s…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Let’s learn from the past: Assassination attempt on Henry Clay Frick”
byThe news received national attention and ignited public criticism of Frick. One dissenter, Russian anarchist Alexander Berkman, devised a plan to assassinate Frick and…
CBS Pittsburgh, “Renowned Actor Commemorates 125th Anniversary Of Battle Of Homestead”
byTwo weeks later Frick would survive an assassination attempt after being shot in his downtown office by the anarchist Alexander Berkman — sympathy for…
The New York Times, “New York Today: The City and the Great War”
byAlexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, two of the best-known anarchists in the country, operated out of New York, and socialists and the working class…